VirtualOT

I am an Australian occupational therapist, educator and researcher.
I have worked as an OT in mental health, vocational rehabilitation and a private surgical hospital. I am passionate using online technology to enhance the knowledge and growth of the occupational therapy profession. In my PhD research I am looking at the role of online technologies in information management and knowledge transfer in occupational therapy.
Views expressed and stories shared on this blog are my opinion and do not represent views of my employer or professional registration body.

Thursday, August 20, 2009

This is copied from the Blog "Socialnomics" and was shown to me by Susan Burwash at the UofA. Thanks Susan!

Stats from Video (sources listed below by corresponding #)

1. By 2010 Gen Y will outnumber Baby Boomers….96% of them have joined a social network 2. Social Media has overtaken porn as the #1 activity on the Web 3. 1 out of 8 couples married in the U.S. last year met via social media 4. Years to Reach 50 millions Users: Radio (38 Years), TV (13 Years), Internet (4 Years), iPod (3 Years)…Facebook added 100 million users in less than 9 months…iPhone applications hit 1 billion in 9 months. 5. If Facebook were a country it would be the world’s 4th largest between the United States and Indonesia 6. Yet, some sources say China’s QZone is larger with over 300 million using their services (Facebook’s ban in China plays into this) 7. comScore indicates that Russia has the most engage social media audience with visitors spending 6.6 hours and viewing 1,307 pages per visitor per month – Vkontakte.ru is the #1 social network 8. 2009 US Department of Education study revealed that on average, online students out performed those receiving face-to-face instruction 9. 1 in 6 higher education students are enrolled in online curriculum 10. % of companies using LinkedIn as a primary tool to find employees….80% 11. The fastest growing segment on Facebook is 55-65 year-old females 12. Ashton Kutcher and Ellen Degeneres have more Twitter followers than the entire populations of Ireland, Norway and Panama 13. 80% of Twitter usage is on mobile devices…people update anywhere, anytime…imagine what that means for bad customer experiences? 14. Generation Y and Z consider e-mail passé…In 2009 Boston College stopped distributing e-mail addresses to incoming freshmen 15. What happens in Vegas stays on YouTube, Flickr, Twitter, Facebook… 16. The #2 largest search engine in the world is YouTube 17. Wikipedia has over 13 million articles…some studies show it’s more accurate than Encyclopedia Britannica…78% of these articles are non-English 18. There are over 200,000,000 Blogs 19. 54% = Number of bloggers who post content or tweet daily 20. Because of the speed in which social media enables communication, word of mouth now becomes world of mouth 21. If you were paid a $1 for every time an article was posted on Wikipedia you would earn $156.23 per hour 22. Facebook USERS translated the site from English to Spanish via a Wiki in less than 4 weeks and cost Facebook $0 23. 25% of search results for the World’s Top 20 largest brands are links to user-generated content 24. 34% of bloggers post opinions about products & brands 25. People care more about how their social graph ranks products and services than how Google ranks them 26. 78% of consumers trust peer recommendations 27. Only 14% trust advertisements 28. Only 18% of traditional TV campaigns generate a positive ROI 29. 90% of people that can TiVo ads do 30. Hulu has grown from 63 million total streams in April 2008 to 373 million in April 2009 31. 25% of Americans in the past month said they watched a short video…on their phone 32. According to Jeff Bezos 35% of book sales on Amazon are for the Kindle when available 33. 24 of the 25 largest newspapers are experiencing record declines in circulation because we no longer search for the news, the news finds us. 34. In the near future we will no longer search for products and services they will find us via social media 35. More than 1.5 million pieces of content (web links, news stories, blog posts, notes, photos, etc.) are shared on Facebook…daily. 36. Successful companies in social media act more like Dale Carnegie and less like David Ogilvy Listening first, selling second 37. Successful companies in social media act more like party planners, aggregators, and content providers than traditional advertiser

The above statistics and “Social Media Revolution” video tell the story, social media isn’t a fad, it’s a fundamental shift in the way we communicate. Please feel free to share with any non-believers!

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